Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.....

[laurandbillever]

I watched Harry Potter 6 from 10:15 PM to 1:00 AM.... :P:P:P You ask why? Well, I was too impatient to watch it with my friends in a more human hour... ^_^

The movie was worse than I expected but I have seen worser.... Still, this is the worst part from the HP series. But I enjoyed it and felt strong emotions because the movie,no matter how far it

Comments

[lily_winterwood]

I think it's better if the writers paid a bit more attention towards the romance because in essence HBP was basically "Sweet Valley Hogwarts" in the book. If they managed to make the romance look plausible, it's a win for them.

Still, they're not getting my money. Rowling pretty much half-killed my love for her books with the unrealistic protrayal of her "Canon" couples. So I'm not watching the movies, either. :P I'll wait until the DVDs come out.

[laurandbillever]

Well, I strongly disagree- Harry Potter is really about love and how it is the most powerful thing against evil and as a connection between people, but it is definitely not a romantic comedy, as the film was... I guess it is about how we read the book, but for me this 6th book was equal parts romance and Dumbledore's final lessons and the path of Voldemort. The movie concentrated on the romance which was wrong, it should have concentrated on the three things equally.

About the portrayal of the characters... I don't know, they seem pretty realistic to me, I like Rowling's style. A matter of perspective again :)

[lily_winterwood]

Not going to fuss on the first part, but the second? I don't think Harry/Ginny is that realistic. Sure there are people who fancy their brother's friend, but what happens when that friend is famous? You get rockstar/groupie interaction.

Seeing that HP is meant to be a role model, I guess what I can learn from Harry/Ginny is that if I wait around and act Mary Sueish I'll attract Mary McDonnell and Ben Barnes. And what I learn from Ron/Hermione is that arguing and injuring people both physically and mentally is the equivalent of True Love.

[laurandbillever]

It was explained in the beginning that Harry's time with his uncle and aunt made him a sensible and decent guy and as such, he would never go with the groopies and he would never accept all the stupid girls who admire him. And Ginny is everything but Mary Sue- yes, as a little girl she admired Harry, as all little girls do, but then she grew up, became independent and really strong character. And it was Hermoine who taught her that.

I don't think Rowling said that her characters should be the model of all couples, it is just one case in which arguing means love(Ron/Hermoine) and first love means marriage (Harry/Ginny) There are rare occasions in RL when that happens, I, myself, had a boy with whom I argued very much and then realised I may have feelings for him. And I know people who met in high school and are married. It is not common, it is an exception, but it exists. Don't take Rowling's book so seriously, it doesn't have the ultimate truth about couples, love and so on, it is just one book, one point of view among many others :)